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Mar 20 2019 12:39pm
Urgent Action outcome: Death sentences commuted to life imprisonment
On 26 February 2019, Egypt’s Supreme Military Court of Appeals formall...
Mar 19 2019 9:21pm
Taking Lives: Art, Activism & the Death Penalty on Screen
It's been a while since the Sheffield Amnesty International local grou...
Mar 19 2019 3:53pm
The Death Penalty in Britain
Let me make my position crystal clear upfront - I believe the death pe...
Mar 11 2019 11:21am
Urgent Action: Tortured conservationists face death penalty
Eight detained conservationists could face the death penalty or long p...
Mar 1 2019 10:54am
South Sudan executed as many people last month as it did in whole of last year
Seven men, including members of one family, hanged amid rise in execut...
Feb 22 2019 12:59pm
Iran: three juvenile offenders at risk of imminent execution
One of the three - Mohammad Kalhori - was only 15 when arrested ...
Feb 22 2019 12:50pm
Sri Lanka: President must halt planned execution of 13 people
Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena should halt plans to execute...
Feb 19 2019 5:57pm
Egypt: nine men at risk of imminent execution after unfair trial
They were sentenced to death for the killing of the former public pros...
Feb 13 2019 5:05pm
Egypt: 'Alarming escalation' in executions as six people killed in just two weeks
Egyptian authorities today hanged three prisoners convicted of killing...
Feb 7 2019 11:53am
Urgent Action: Canadian sentenced to death in a one-day retrial
Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian national, was sentenced to death after...